Re: [PATCH v2] add time_now_after and other macros which comparewith jiffies

[Andrew Morton]

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:08:08 +0000 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Yes, This has a purpose as well. You will find most of the usage of these
> > macros are just compare some value with jiffies after doing some grep.
> 
> That is no reason to add more macros that hide how they do it, or make
> jiffies itself invisible to the grep search or variable usage finding
> tools (and for tickless that very thing is important)

We could call them time_is_after_jiffies(), time_is_before_jiffies(), etc.

Those names are actually better than time_after_now(), etc.

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